Friday, April 05, 2002

Posted by Kate
11:36 AMMuch Ado About Much. This has been a busy week. First I became a grandmother, joining Mike and Linda in that milestone event in life where one must confront the march of time. I assure you that I'll not go gently into that role if it means growing up. Second, I've been given editorial control over a collection of documents that Mike and Linda have produced over the past two years. My task is to take policy, process and procedures, project plans and related artifacts and turn them into generic, fill-in-the-blanks templates for change control, issue management and service level management processes.

Value Proposition. The documents will be offered at an attractive price by TEAM Zarate-Tarrani. The value will be as follows:

Documents will be in Microsoft Word and Excel formats, and all graphics will be in Visio. We have decided that Office 97 and Visio 5 are the best formats because most companies have upgraded to those products or beyond. The value in this approach is that the documents can be easily tailored to meet an organization's specific requirements and reflect the current situation with respect to process maturity.

See before you buy. Samples of each of the documents will be provided, in their entirety, in Adobe PDF format. We'll lock the documents to prevent printing, selecting and copying text, or making modifications to protect our intellectual property, but potential customers can see exactly what they'll be getting before risking a penny.

Pricing: $49.95 is the standard price per document. We chose this price because it's a compromise between outright giving the documents away (something that we considered) and recognizing that people do not value what is freely given regardless of the intrinsic value of the artifact.